Now, you can cross all the new Christmas movies from Netflix, Lifetime, and Hallmark (open in new tab) off your list, and you'll have Macaulay Culkin's "Home Alone" and Jim Carrey's "The Grinch" (no criticism.) Your best bet would be to dive into Hulu's extensive catalog of holiday hits. Sure, Hulu has the lesbian holiday romance movie we've all been waiting for, "Happiest Season" (opens in a new tab), or the 1988 made-for-TV movie "A Very Brady Christmas," which reunites a popular blended family from the 1970s It's a place to get nostalgic. But Hulu is also a treasure trove of Christmas-time sleeper hits, including the wackiest dramas from the back catalogs of Hallmark and Lifetime and a respectable selection of holiday horror films.

From past blockbusters to Idris Elba's most droll roles, here are 17 of Hulu's best holiday films, in no particular order.

Ah, the classic Christmas zombie musical. Anna Shepherd (Ella Hunt) finds herself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse just before December 25. Her solution is to work with her friends to sing, slay, and rescue her family and build a new world without zombies.

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Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis (opens in new tab) star as the couple Abby and Harper. The perfect blend of emotion and laughter is provided by a stellar cast that includes Dan Levy, Alison Brie, and Aubrey Plaza.

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Emily (Laura Bell Bundy), a "big city lawyer" turned "small town baker," has two mysteries to solve. That is, who sent her a complicated Christmas countdown letter with a heartfelt note, and whether the Frenchman (Brendon Zub) who just opened a rival bakery is friend or foe. If we can solve the first mystery, we may be able to solve the second.

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A Christmas remake of "John Tucker Must Die". Enough said.

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A well-paid businesswoman (Abigail Hawke) is sent to idyllic Vermont to close her long-running small business, but her burgeoning relationship with a handsome local man entire business mentality is changed. In addition, Chevy Chase appears in a Clark Griswold-esque role as her boss.

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Also known as Santa Claus himself intervenes to put a stop to the endless cycle of "fake news" in American politics. Sounds refreshing, but it turns out to be less than ideal when spin doctor Gillian (Kari Hawk) is spending the holidays meeting her boyfriend's family for the first time, when suddenly, only the truth can be told.

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A troubled teen (Lexi Ainsworth) rebuilds her life and finds the true meaning of Christmas. Eric Roberts and Vivica A. Fox play her parents. [29] [30] Watch Now (open in new tab) [31] [32] More than a decade after The Brady Bunch stopped filming, the original cast reunited for what would become one of the most important television events of the late 1980s: A Very Brady Christmas. The film is both a heartwarming return to the beloved sitcom and a meaningful glimpse into the complicated lives of the Brady children as they grew up.

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A disgraced radio host (Tirkey Jones) is sent to a small town station to restore its image. Stay tuned to see if she can accomplish this seemingly impossible mission, and to see if "Parks & Rec's" Jim O'Hare and Marcia Brady (aka Maureen McCormick) will be in their typical quirky supporting roles.

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What happens when you cross "The Hunger Games" with an office Christmas party in this horror film from Hulu's "Into the Dark" movie series, Dustin Milligan of "Shits Creek" confronts his colleagues in a (literal) fight to the death for a year-end promotion.

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There's no better Christmas movie than a slightly on-the-nose melodrama named after a Christmas song (it's Last Christmas). Good luck trying to keep up with the drama of the Whitfield family, whose hidden relationships, secret career plans, and fisticuffs cause fistfights, with celebrities like Regina King and Idris Elba also making appearances.

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All you need is Mario Lopez to voice the dog that saves the protagonist's Christmas. We're just in awe of the masterminds behind Freeform.

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If you like your holiday movies a little more meta than most, this one is for you. Sisters Eve and Lacey (Lana McKissack and Kimberly Daugherty) wish for a movie-like Christmas with Santa, but once their wish is granted, they learn that life as in a Hallmark movie is not so appealing.

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While there is no shortage of film adaptations of A Christmas Carol, this 2017 Charles Dickens biopic takes a refreshingly different approach. Dan Stevens plays the author, creating a 1843 classic that is credited with making Christmas itself so popular. A bonus: Christopher Plummer gives an excellent performance as the (imaginary) Ebenezer Scrooge.

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It's another classic Christmas story: boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl dress up as Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus and engage in psychopathic carnage in a small upstate New York town. A regular holiday movie.

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December is definitely "Little Women" season, but if you've already completed your annual re-read and can quote both the 1994 version and the 2019 film by heart, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy to mix things up with this made-for-TV adaptation of the story of the March sisters, who, while a bit less quaint than their 19th-century counterparts, don't seem to have strayed too far from Louisa May Alcott's original image, and "The March Sisters of Christmas" is a modern-day "Little Women '' is a perfectly charming piece of fanfic.

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Wouldn't you hate to find out that your seemingly perfect boyfriend is actually just a head-scratching hallucination based on an attractive mannequin you recently admired in a store window?

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